Join us at Parallel Café as we celebrate Patrick Johnson, winner of the 2019 Ballard Spahr Poetry Prize, and his debut collection of poems, Gatekeeper. The evening will feature a reading from Gatekeeper, conversation between Patrick and Ballard Spahr Poetry Prize judge and poet, Khaled Mattawa, and a reception with food and drink!
Milkweed Editions and Copper Nickel are thrilled to announce that judge francine j. harris has chosen Kathryn Smith’s book Self-Portrait with Cephalopod as the winner of the 2019–20 Jake Adam York Prize.
Self-Portrait with Cephalopod will be published by Milkweed Editions in February 2021, and Smith will receive $2,000.
Kathryn Smith is the author of the full-length collection Book of Exodus (Scablands Books, 2017) and the chapbook Chosen Companions of the Goblin, winner of the 2018 Open Country Press Chapbook Contest. Her poems have appeared in Bellingham Review, The Journal, Mid-American Review, Poetry Northwest,…
Benjamin Garcia’s first collection of poems, Thrown in the Throat, was selected for the 2019 National Poetry Series by Kazim Ali. He currently works as a sexual health and harm reduction educator in the Finger Lakes region of New York.
Erin Sharkey is a writer, arts and abolition organizer, cultural worker, and film producer based in Minneapolis.
Join Milkweed Books and Nodin Press in celebrating Rocked by the Waters, an anthology of poems on motherhood co-edited by Margaret Hasse and Athena Kildegaard.
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Hello Milkweed True Believers and Happy February! For this month’s Deep Cuts series we have a special treat for you in the form of a new interview with future Milkweed author and co-founder of the Free Black Dirt collective, Erin Sharkey! This month we take an in-depth look at a forthcoming anthology of Black archival writing as relates to the history of slavery and freedom and migration for Black life here in Minnesota and in the wider country, how we reckon with what she deftly calls “the politics of nature.” It was an honor to sit a spell with Erin’s enormous vision for Blackness, history, the future, and what this anthology can and should mean to us, to all of us!
Left Margin Lit welcomes Rick Barot, author of The Galleons, and Victoria Chang for an evening of poetry reading.
Join Barrington Public Library as they welcome the author of this year’s Reading Across Rhode Island selection, Elizabeth Rush. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore is her highly original work of lyric reportage and a haunting meditation on how to let go of the places we love.
This panel explores social media as a political space critical to writers today. Panelists will discuss digital citizenship; the fight for inclusivity, vulnerability, accountability, allyship, discourse, and understanding in writing and publishing; and the effects of that fight on personal and professional lives.
